General Electric and the light bulb have been inextricably linked for the past 126 years. Now, GE is having a hard time getting rid of its founding product.

The electric light bulb inspired the development of the radio valve and the television tube. Can we imagine what the world would have been like in the 20th and 21st centuries without the light bulb?

The first electric light bulb, invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 and patented on January 27, 1880.

How stylish are your light bulbs? More than a century after Thomas Edison created what would become the first practical electric light bulb, versions modeled after it are popping up in trendy ...

1. Who is credited with inventing the first electric light bulb? 2. Who defeated the French in the Battle of the Nile? 3. Who became the first Black American to play in Major League Baseball in ...

Butte (well, technically, Walkerville) almost certainly had the first electric light bulb in Montana, installed at the Alice Mine in November 1880, about a year after Thomas Edison invented his ...

The city of Scranton took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City on Dec. 6, 1880. On that date, electric lights were introduced at the Dickson Locomotive Works. This was … ...

While it was Mr Edison that invented the first commercially viable light bulb, it was Mr Latimer who made its widespread use possible with his patented improvements.

By way of some perspective, Ayrton and Perry's electric car was on the road just over a year after Thomas Edison's public unveiling of the very first electric light bulb at Menlo Park on 31 ...

Electric Christmas Tree In 1882, two years after the first reliable incandescent light bulb was born, Johnson lit up his New York City home off Fifth Avenue with a string of 80 “dainty glass ...